Hooked on Books discussion

Welcome to HOB's Informal Buddy Read Corner! 📚👥

Looking for a reading companion? Find your perfect match here!

Now that you've found your literary partner(s), it's time to embark on a bookish adventure! Let's get you set up for an unforgettable reading experience.

How to Join the Fun
To sign up, follow this fabulous format:
Members Reading: Bookworm1 & Bookworm2
Book: No Buddy Like a Book
Challenge: HOB Monster Hunt (or N/A if you're reading purely for pleasure)

The Not-So-Serious Rules 📜
1. Gather your book buddies! Minimum 2 readers, but the more, the merrier (and chattier)! You are also welcome to join any BR thread you'd like!
2. An HOB mod will conjure up a magical thread for your group. Let the reading and witty banter commence!
3. No strict pacing rules here! Read at your own speed, discuss as much or as little as you like. It's your literary party! However, some challenges are chatterboxes and may require a minimum number of comments for those coveted points. Be sure to double-check the challenge rules – you don't want to miss out on points because you were too shy! Remember, in the world of buddy reads, there's no such thing as too much bookish banter!
4. Time is a social construct, but challenges may have deadlines. Double-check if you're aiming for those sweet, sweet points.
5. Reading for fun? Absolutely allowed!
6. Threads hibernate after a month of inactivity. Need to keep the conversation alive? Give Ashley a shout!
7. Feeling ambitious? Sign up for multiple Buddy Reads and become a reading superhero!

Questions?
Don't be shy! Ask away, and we'll answer faster than you can say "plot twist"!
Remember, in the world of Buddy Reads, there's no such thing as too many books or too much fun.

Happy reading, everyone! 🎉📖

We have a few BRs to request. Thank you!

Members Reading: Karen & Geri
Book: Same Time Next Year
Challenge: HOB Book Quest Adventures

Members Reading: Karen & Geri
Book: When Gracie Met The Grump
Challenge: HOB Book Quest Adventures

Members Reading: Melissa & Geri
Book: Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune
Challenge: HOB Book Quest Adventures

Can we get 2 buddy reads set up?

Members Reading: Jessica, Skye Blue, Mrsgeo, Iliana
New Year's Resolutions
Challenge: HOB Saga Scouts Book Quest


Members Reading: Jessica, Skye Blue, Iliana
End of the Line
Challenge: HOB Saga Scouts Book Quest

Here you go! Happy Reading!

IBR - Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey
IBR - When Gracie Met The Grump by Mariana Zapata
IBR - Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

Here you go! Happy Reading!

IBR - New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene
IBR - End of the Line by Nicky James

Thank you

Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆ wrote: "Thank you"

Of course! :)

Sorry Ashley, can we please have two more?

Members Reading: Jessica and Skye
Hidden in Darkness

Members Reading: Jessica and MrsGeo
A Single Man

The Quill Questers (MN Lisa, Amanda, Jackie, Janine and Kirsten) would like the following buddy reads for January. Thanks!

New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene (Lisa, Janine)
After Felix by Lily Morton

Jessica wrote: "Sorry Ashley, can we please have two more?

Members Reading: Jessica and Skye
Hidden in Darkness

Members Reading: Jessica and MrsGeo
A Single Man"

Here you go!

IBR - Hidden in Darkness by Alice Winters
IBR - A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

MN Lisa wrote: "The Quill Questers (MN Lisa, Amanda, Jackie, Janine and Kirsten) would like the following buddy reads for January. Thanks!

New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene (Lisa, Janine)
[..."

Here you go!

IBR - After Felix by Lily Morton

There is a current IBR for New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene started by the Saga Scouts, so please use that thread:
IBR - New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene

Members Reading: Vicki & Jammin Jenny
Book:
Challenge: HOB Chapter Champs

Here you go!

IBR - Dead Money by Jakob Kerr

May Jammin Jenny and I please get buddy read threads for:

- 1/13

- 2/12

- 2/15

Thank you!!

Here you go!

IBR - Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
IBR - Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
IBR - Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer

Thank you!

May Vicki and I please get threads for:

- 1/16

- 2/17

Thank you!

I would like to request a thread for Angie and Jenny (and anyone else) for-


Thank you!

Buddy Reads, coming up!

IBR - What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange
IBR - Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
IBR - The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

We need a thread for Erica, Kat and anyone else for . Thanks!

Here you go!

IBR - My Murder by Katie Williams

Thank you!!

I have several BRs to request for Quill Questers for Book Quest Adventure (and I am personally loving this challenge and finding 10 books to read with friends):

Janeylou & Kirsten
To Catch a Firefly

Amanda & Kirsten
By the Book

Jackie, Amanda, & Kirsten
Vicious

Amanda, Lisa, & Kirsten
Legend of the White Snake

Jackie & Kirsten
The Book of Magic

Team Read (Amanda, Jackie, Janeylou, Kirsten, Lisa)
Orientation

I have a few to request for Quill Questers for Book Quest Adventure too. These are for February for our team.

Haydn - Lisa and Janine
Leo - Lisa and Janine
Trusting Tanner - Lisa and Janine
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Amanda and Jackie

First set (more coming)...

IBR - To Catch a Firefly by Emmy Sanders
IBR - By the Book by Gregory Ashe
IBR - Vicious by Victoria E. Schwab
IBR - Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee
IBR - The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
IBR - Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Second set (more coming)...

IBR - Haydn by J.J. Harper
IBR - Leo by J.J. Harper
IBR - Trusting Tanner by Nicky James
IBR - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

I have some requests for Champion Chapters team

Vicki and Jammin Jenny:
- in February

Trisha and Teddie
- first week February

Trisha and Vicki
- 2/2
- 2/5
- 2/10
- 2/14
- 2/22

Buddy request. Thank you!

Members Reading: Karen & Geri
Book: Let Me Be the One
Challenge: HOB Book Quest Adventures

Trisha wrote: "I have some requests for Champion Chapters team

Vicki and Jammin Jenny:
- in February

Trisha and Teddie
- first week Febru..."
I’ll read Isaac’s song with you.

Here you go!

IBR - Wild Love by Elsie Silver
IBR - The Wedding People by Alison Espach
IBR - Isaac's Song by Daniel Black
IBR - More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
IBR - Playworld by Adam Ross
IBR - The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
IBR - Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
IBR - Let Me Be the One by Bella Andre

Ashley wrote: "Here you go!

IBR - Wild Love by Elsie Silver
IBR - T

Thank you!!

Claire wrote: "I’ll read Isaac’s song with you...."

Yay! We'd love for you to join us!

Teddie and I from Chapter Champions would love another buddy thread for February please:



Thank you!

Here you go!

IBR - A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

Thank you!!

Can I please have two buddy reads for Saga Scouts

Me, Skye, Iliana, Ashley
Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

Me and Iliana
Hurricane Reese by R.L. Merrill

Here you go!

IBR - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune
IBR - Hurricane Reese by R.L. Merrill

Hi! Another buddy request. Thanks!

Members Reading: Melissa & Geri
Book: Honey Roasted
Challenge: HOB Book Quest Adventures

Here you go!

IBR - Honey Roasted by Cleo Coyle

Ashley, The Page Pioneers would like to request some buddy reads when you get a moment...

February Buddy Reads
Onyx Storm Jenny, Angie & Donna
Kushiel's Dart Jenny, Judith, Angie, Sammy, Donna
Song of the Forever Rains Jenny & Judith
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Angie, Sammy, Judith & Donna

Challenge: Book Quest

Thanks!!!

Quill Questers would like to request a buddy read for
The House in the Cerulean Sea - Amanda, Jackie

Thanks!

Here you go!

IBR - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
IBR - Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
IBR - Song of the Forever Rains by E.J. Mellow
IBR - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

IBR - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Thanks Ashley!

May we please get a thread for this buddy read for Anna and myself?
Start Date: Feb. 10


All the Colors of the Dark

Here ya go!

IBR - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Thank you, Ashley :)

Quill Questers would like to request a buddy read for
Robbie - Lisa, Janine

Thanks!

Here ya go!

IBR - Robbie by Ella Frank

Quill Questers would like a Buddy Reads thread for Kirsten, Jackie, and Amanda for James by Percival Everett.

Thank you!

I'm going to make this in about an hour or so, I just wasn't near a computer yesterday!